Janner Kohl is supposed to be my Solomon Kane, a wandering, sword-and-sorcery hero whose tales I would chronicle in episodic short stories. The setup was perfect: a mercenary of principles in a world transitioning from medieval dark ages to enlightened renaissance; where magic exists more as myth than reality, but still could be stumbled across [...]
Janner Kohl is not a Harlequin romance
Filed under Writing Journal on March 10, 2009
Tagged: Janner Kohl, Relvan's Rescue, sword-and-sorcery
Not a fan of Fafhrd
Filed under Reviews on October 28, 2008
Tagged: Fafhrd, fantasy fiction, Fritz Leiber, Gray Mouser, Lankhmar, sword-and-sorcery
It’s been a while since I read a book on my “bucket list” of genre classics. I picked up an omnibus of the first three Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser anthologies: Swords and Deviltry, Swords Against Death and Swords in the Mist. I’m afraid to say that other than “Lean Times in Lankhmar”, I’ve found [...]
Writing sword-and-sorcery fiction
Filed under Tips & Tools on May 23, 2008
Tagged: Conan, magic, sword-and-sorcery
A close second to epic fantasy in popularity would be the sword-and-sorcery sub-genre. The term was originally coined by author Fritz Leiber in response to Michael Moorcock’s demand to classify the fantasy adventure stories written by Robert E. Howard. As such, Conan and Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser came to typify sword-and-sorcery. The genre suffered [...]
